Fastening device.



H. NORDVALL & M. PETERSON.

FASTENING DEVICE.

APPLICATION FILED APR..25. 1914.

1,169,859. Patented Feb.1, 1916.

Win/ea v Wen/Z0 HJ'ALMAR NORDVALL AND MANUEL PETERSON, OF DALTON,MICHIGAN.

FASTENING DEVICE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Feb. 1, 1916.,

Application filed April 25, 1914. Serial No. 834,534.

To all whom it may concern: i

Be it known that we, HJALMAR NORDVALL, a subject of the King of Sweden,and MAN- UEL PETERSON, a citizen of the United States, residing atDalton, in the county of Muskegon and State of Michigan, have invented anew and useful Fastening Device, of which the following is aspecification.

Our invention relates to a fastening device to be known as adjustablesack ties, which said fastening device consists of a small twisted,pliable steel hook which may be tied to the end of a string or a handthrough an eye in the hook; and the objects of said improvement are,first, to produce a method of tying bags, fastening horse blankets, andtying or fastening similar other articles in a speedy and secure mannerand second, to afiord a method in which said sacks, horse blankets orsimilar other articles may be untied equally as fast and in as easy amanner. WVe attain these objects by the small twisted, pliable steelhook illus- ,trated in the accompanying drawings, in

which Figure 1 is a full view of entire device with band or stringfastened in 'loop marked 3. Fig. 2 is a plan view of twisted steel hooknot attached to string or band.

In Fig. 1, numeral 3 refers to eye of hook in which string, numeral 4,is tied numeral 5 refers to the string or band as fastened in the loopcaused by a bending of said steel hook while numeral 6 refers to springof said steel hook which is so adjusted to prevent band or string fromslipping back and coming loose; numeral 7 refers to the end of thestring or band which is to be pulled toward the eye, numeral 3, to untieband or string instantly.

Having thus fully described our invention, what we claim as new anddesire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States is In a bagfastener, a cord and a resilient wire cord holder consisting of a bodybent into the form of a thin V, one arm terminating in an eye forreceiving the other end of said cord, the other arm bent back so thatthe end partly closes the opening of the V, but permits a cord to beforced past the retaining end and into engagement with the V notch.

In testimony whereof we have signed our names to this specification inthe presence of two subscribing witnesses.

HJALMAR NORDVALL. MANUEL PETERSON.

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